Just keep in mind, you don't know what they used that card for. Did they take care of it? Did they let it overheat? Did they accidentally knock their computer over? If it was me, I'd look for refurbished cards instead of straight used. At least then there's a bit more security.

Just keep in mind, you don't know what they used that card for. Did they take care of it? Did they let it overheat? Did they accidentally knock their computer over? If it was me, I'd look for refurbished cards instead of straight used. At least then there's a bit more security.

BTW, I kind of agree with the risks in buying a used video card. You have no idea how badly they might have messed up the card trying to do overclocks, modding, custom heatsinks, whatever. If you found someone (maybe in a forum) who just likes to upgrade a lot and wanted to sell it to get some money back, maybe that *might* be more acceptable.

BTW, I kind of agree with the risks in buying a used video card. You have no idea how badly they might have messed up the card trying to do overclocks, modding, custom heatsinks, whatever. If you found someone (maybe in a forum) who just likes to upgrade a lot and wanted to sell it to get some money back, maybe that *might* be more acceptable.

Seems fine. A lot of people get the PowerColor ones.BTW, just as a side note. Two features you will not get with an AMD card is Nvidia's Shadowplay that lets you record video of games with less of a performance loss than most recording software... and Nvidia's G-sync, which is something for special monitors, which you probably will never buy. But other than that, considering the price and performance, it seems good.

Its PowerColor a good brand? And what about overcloking that card with stock cooling system?

I guess it's more like the baseline? It's neither bad, nor is it a super high end brand.Or maybe I'm thinking of Sapphire and not PowerColor.

As for overclocking, I don't suspect it's gonna be a big overclocker ... overclocking might be better in another brand and/or maybe even a different model GPU, so you would mostly be buying it for stock speed performance vs other GPUs.